Megan Power

My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips

"I think that's all art is, a record of interior attention paid."

Labov's 6 Basic Elements of Storytelling

Classifying and delineating story patterns is a vast field of study, but one of the most influential theories was written in 1972 by socioli...
Birkhoff's Formula for Aesthetic Measure

Paul Octavious' s 51 books on love Mathematician George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) had a keen interest in aesthetics - ...
J.G. Ballard's Death of Affect

British novelist J.G. Ballard wrote the postmodernist classic Crash and coined the phrase "Death of Affect". 'Affect' i...
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper

"We need, in short, to challenge the presumption that the work-dominated, stressed-out, time-scarce and materially encumbered affluen...
My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips

"I think that's all art is, a record of interior attention paid ."